The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-12-09
NEWS AND OTHER NoTINGs.


sweet potato this year that was two feet
foHr inches long and eight inches in circum-
ference.
China has a. the present time l 500
temples TO the honor of Confucius, at which
g., 600 pigs, rabbits. sheep and deer, and
1900 pieces of silk are offered annually.
The city of Toxic. Japan. is celebrated
not only for the number, but the extent and
beauty of its parks. Chief among them Is
WOoyeno. with al area of 9. 500 acres, and
Shiba. of 200 acres.
In the face of the strenuous efforts on
the part of all concerned, the potato bug
has succeeded in establishing foot-hold in
Germany. Its appearance in the surround
ing countries is only question Of time.
Peter Bennett, 50 years old, q wealthy
and miseIly old farmer of Newport. Me,
wEo kept his money in mis- dwelling, was
beaten into uncOnsciouspess by burglars on
Sunday night and robbed of So, 900 in notes
and gold.
Chester Bellows, of Floyd county, Ia,
is to be executed December 10th. He will
be hanged with the same rope that was
made for LipRg, the Chicago anarchist. the
Sh eriff having secured it from Sheriff
Matson.
"A tree was cut in the SkOokum Valley,
in Washington Territory, that scaled 35, 600
feet. AS $3.50 per 1000 is the value Of
lumber there, the tree was worth S262. 80.
1t is said that the lumber lands in that
locality will average 10 such trees to the
acre.
"A steam horsepower is equal to three
horses no iG
TO seven men. The steam-engines to-day
represent in the world approximately the
work of a thousand millions of men. or
mole than double the working population
of the earth.
1t is now possible to construct a CON-
plete sewing machine in q minute, or sixty
in one hour; a reaper every fifteen minutes,
or less 800 watches in a day, complete in
all their appointments. More important
than this even. is the fact that il is possible
TO construct locomotive in a day.
"A large marsh near Switz City, Ind,
which has hitherto been a resort for wild
game during the migration south, was re-
Gently drained. and spOr.smen say it is a
wonderful sight now TO see vast fOcks of
ducks and geese circle around above their
old resting place and then fly slowly away
if disappointed.
"A tean-eating match between a fat
man and a lean man came of at a st. Louis
hotel the other evening. The contestants
devoured eight pots OF beans each, then the
slim mau stopped, unable 20 eat more. The
fat man kept on, finished his ninth pot and
was declared the winner. He had eaten eX-
Gctly nine pounds OF beans
corraznpp1aut yEyritas Of thu
Inhabitants of the While Nile countries say
ing. that among them are tribes as white as
Eurc peans, with long, silky hair, the boards
OF some OF the old men reaching to their
feet. Many OF the black tribes eat none
but human flesh, men and women being
SOLD in the markets at SO much a pound. the
same as beef or mutton.
The Colorado group of :he Rocky noun
taius contains several peaks over Il 900 feet
high. The highest of these, and the highest
peak in the United States, Is Big Horn, 49,
600. Mt. Hooker, In the range Of the Rock
les, is Il 900 feet high, but il is in British
America. The higheIt mountain in North
America is PopOcatapetl volcanic of the
Cordilleras range. Mexico.
An alarming scarcity of Goa! exists In
Western Kansas. 1t is said that the famine
is due partially to the refusal of the Atchi-
son and Topeka railroad to furnish sufi-
cient number OF cars, and the citizens
threaten to help themselves to the company s
coal unless it shall at once render assistance.
At Garden City on Saturday OF last week a
train WAS side-tracked ard relieved of some
of its surplus coal.
VIM. Walker, of -TRkulia county, Fla,
while grinding sugar cane, poured several
, barrels OF corn beer over into his hog pen
last week. Imagine his surprise in going
shortly afteTward to the lot to find his en-
tire stock, meat hogs, old sows and the lit
/ tie pigs on a big bender. Some were drunk,
some drinking, some squealing, others fight
| ing, and the balance, as he thought. dead
| but early the next morning the hogs were
1 Themselves again.
! David Ford, of Lexington, n. Y, a
noted hunter OF the Catskills, started out
/ for fox hunt with his hounds one day last
| week. The dogs soon struck a bear track,
/ and when Ford overlook thsm he found
( them baying at tho mouth of a cavern. An
! instant later large she bear rushed out
/ and was dispatched by Ford, who fired two
/ shots a: her. Three cabs, which nau been
Ford came across the male bear and killed
( it. thus destroying .he whole family, fea:
Z without a parallel in that reg ion.
In England they have no written con-
/ stitution-nothlng answering &c what is m
! derstood IN this country by that term. The
! word precedent is too narrow to cover what
! obtains in the governmental affairs of Great
/ Britain. That which In Great Btitain an
I swers to our constitution is something that
/ grows steadily ana suits itself to the chang
/ ing conditions of the progressive country.
1t is elastic and not bound by the past, eX-
/ cept In so far as that which is and may be
/ regarded as of the nature of precedent can
/ stand every test OF the new conditions and
I new requirements.
An election was held two weeks ago TO
select capital for Cheyenne county, Kan,
| and IL is claimed that Bud City received a
( majority OF the votes. The County Com
mIssioners, who are residents of Wano, the
| opposing town, refused to canvass portion
{ of the vote and declared in favor OF Wsno.
! Wano people then obtained leo Winchester
I rifles, and on Tuesday proceeded to Bud
City to take possession of the COur: House.
( The Bud City people, who were also armed.
resisted, and conflict ensued. during which
three men were injured. Finally the Wano
men were forced TO return to their town and
Bud City still has possession OF the county
records. The people have requested the
State officials TO send militia 10 maintain the
peace.
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